Evil Snowman

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

@Specter189 Dam you sure a MR. popular right now.

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

Theodore Maxwell

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It had been a long, busy afternoon for Theo, as the young man went shopping for coffee and other bit and pieces he remembered he needed. Making it home around 3:30 has he got distracted when he bumped into a friend, who he ended up eating lunch with. When he got home Theo, unpacked all the shopping he had brought, pleased to have several items he had been lack for weeks but hadn't gotten around to buying yet. With the reason for him going out done Theo pulled out the bit of paper Mirei had given him with her number on it.
"Hehe, been a while since I picked up a number ... feels pretty good. Even if it was just to play tour good, it gives me that tingling feeling." he thought has he went about programming the number into his phone, so he wouldn't lose it. Once that was done, Theo sat at a desk that sat by the evaluator steel door. Turning on a large, expensive looking computer, it responding with a soft hum as power flowed into it.

Theo spent the next few hours on his computer playing a game call the Legends of War, with a few of he friends that where online at the time. It was around 8, when one of his friends talked about trying out the Cornerstone bar. The mention of the name causing Theo to get up and check his fridge for a note he had made, but only just recalled putting up.
"Oh yeah that joint opens up to night, looks like it be a good place to get hammered in." Theo said into the Microphone of the wireless head set sat on his head, stopping as he started to recall another detail.
"You know what? I'm going go check it out, I recall something about the first around being on the house. SO WHO IS WITH ME? This will be a dangerous expedition in to unknown lands, some of us may not even survive the trip! But think of the glory and riches we may discover!" he said shouting into hismicc causing several of his friends to start cursing Theo's name.

Sadly for Theo only one of his friends opted to come with him, but luckily for the young man it was his a friend he had more money than brain cells so knew he'd get a free drink or two out of it. Theo unable to say no to even the chance of a drink, although knew it would still be a costly night. That was something he didn't care about, simply because that would require thing about the effect his actions would have. Quickly having a shower. Theo got himself change it something he was pretty sure would be considered okay. Although as he looked himself in the mirror he thought maybe he was over dressed, but in the end decided it wasn't something worth worrying about. Quickly feeding his furry overlords, so they wouldn't trash the joint for not feeding them.

Theo left his apartment and after a quick pit stop to the landlady apartment on the ground floor to get directions. Theo was surprised to learn the Cornerstone was actually not to far away, Theo pleased to learn this given he didn't like a lot of the bars already in the area. They where to shady for his liking and he had trouble enjoying the atmosphere, but if this one was good it would become he watering hole and end a long search. As Theo made his way to the bar, he knew he friend was most likely already down there checking the place out. Aware his friend would pick out seating for them where he could watch the ladies. Theo's friend being a little bit of a player. By the time he got there it was close to 8:30 Theo walking into the bar only to be greeted bar his friends who was sat at the bar with a beer in his hand already looking like he downed 5 already. Sitting in a free seat next his friend Theo looked him over Theo laughed at his friends chocice of clothes.

Theo left his apartment and after a quick pit stop to the landlady apartment on the ground floor to get directions. Theo was surprised to learn the Cornerstone was actually not to far away, Theo pleased to learn this given he didn't like a lot of the bars already in the area. They were to shady for his liking and he had trouble enjoying the atmosphere, but if this one was good it would become his watering hole and end a long search. As Theo made his way to the bar, he knew his friend was most likely already down there checking the place out. Aware his friend would pick out seating for them where he could watch the ladies. Theo's friend being a little bit of a player. By the time he got there it was close to 8:30 Theo walking into the bar only to be greeted bar his friends who was sat at the bar with a beer in his hand already looking like he downed 5 already. Sitting in a free seat next his friend. Theo looked him over Theo laughing at his friends choice of clothes.

"You wearing that Jack? A denim jacket? Really? Wannbie alert! Theo laughed earning a glare out of his friend.
"Yeah and so what? At least I don't look overdressed."
"Meh, I don't care. I like the way I look and that all that matters too me. It not like we're on a date. Maybe then I'd want to look in a way you though was nice.
"You asking me on a date. My, my Theo I didn't know you batted for the home team. Then again all the tim ..." Jack started to say before breaking down in to a laugh. Once worked the laugh out of his system Jack singled the bar tender, the moment he was free.
"Hello good sir, a beer for me and be... er... and whatever cider you might have." Jack requested Theo glaring at Jack when he was about to order him a beer. Once the two had their drink they started talking and playing around as much as the bartender would allow, without kicking them out or cutting them off.

How long they talked and drinked Theo wasn't sure, as his perception of time faded into oblivion. The pair only stopping when Jack got distracted by a girl he liked the looked of. So went to talk to here. Sighing Theo looked around and noticed Mirei, but left her be.
"She looking good... I wonder what secrets that dress is hiding. he thought going to take a sip out of his drink only to notice it was empty, frowning as it meant the point were he'd have to start paying was occurring as Jack would most likely be chatting up girls for the rest of the night. Leaving Theo to his own devices, a risky move given Theo while drinking was likely to start messing with him.
"Well it was fun while it lasted but drinking alone is in public is boring. Need some company." he thought looking around then an idea he knew would annoy Jack and might land him someone to talk to. Not feeling confidant enough, to approach someone and start talking for no reason. Calling the bartender the second his was free Theo asked another cider waiting for the bartender to give him his drink.
"Hey mate, I wanna buy a round for everyone." he said with a cheery tone knowing the moment Jack found out it bug the crap out of him. Given he hated it when Theo stole even a tiny part of his spotlight, even for a nanosecond.

@Specter189

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

@Specter189 Because cat urine will do more damage then getting ones teeth kicked in.

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

@Specter189 EEP! Maybe not passed out don't want to sprayed with watered down cat p.. urine.

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

@sakurasan Well a certain man will be in the bar, she should try to scam a drink out of him... provided he's not already too drunk and passed out in the bathroom. XD

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

@sakurasan Yes come drink with us and be merry. We'll drink the bartender out of his unwanted booze and eat him out of his unwanted bar snacks. Then when we can't pay we'll try and flee the bar while blind drunk or "work" it off. @Specter189 you know what I'd pick right? XD

The Pickers

Niseli (Nine) Lesvab

Niseli (Nine) Lesvab

Theme Song:

Working on finding one.

"Criminals have no honor, but pickers ... well least they're trying to gain some."

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Name

Niseli Lesvab

Nicknames

Nine, When the word of her name is translated this is what other races tend to get. Even though to her kind it means something very different.

Position

Pilot

Age

486

Gender

Female

Reputation

Has won first place in a number of large open star fighter race events, her people hold every 10 years. These events are highly publicized and broadcast across the galaxy. She won first place in the last event which was 2 years ago.

Appearance

For her kind Nine is a fairly stock standard, standing around the normal height of 5 ft 4, weighing in at 101 ibs which is considered to a little heavy. All Ukaians have a long tail coming out the back of their heads, the tail always being a little longer then the Ukaian's standing height. These tails always have a bioluminescent tip, that gently glows blue at all times. Nine tends to have a several metal coils around her tail that used solely for decoration, but to not impede the tails movement.

The Ukai are covered in fur, which tends to be a shades of gray or black depending on genetics. Nine's fur is considered to be the fairly common gray but is a little thicker then normal. Nine tends wear a tight fitting jump suit that only doesn't cover her head and, this attire made to help regulate body tempter and is common think for all for her kind to wear, finding more open attire just overall uncomfortable against their fur. Like of her kind she always carrying a pistol and refuses to give it up when asked citing cultural reasons. Hers is a basic model with a straight blocky appearance. Due to being off world, Nine almost always seen wearing a pair of high tech goggles' to protect her eyes. Only in dark or dimly little room dose she take them off showing her races small blue eyes. Nine's eyes are bioluminescent and glow the same colour as the tip of her tail, a trait all her kind share.

Pistol Appearance

Height

5 ft 4 in

Weight

101 ibs

Personality

Wary and quite Nine like many of her race is always watching the movements of aliens around her, although is trusting of her own kind. Being said Nine is more trusting of aliens them most of her kind but she still watches them, given most of the time she is on a ship with pickers. Nine is while doesn't mind interacting with other races she often struggles to understand other races and the need to use tones in their voice. This had lead to miscommunication more then once and still does in some cases causing some friction. Some having accidentally insulted Nine, upsetting or angering her unaware they have done so. Nine is the type to hold grudges, especially to aliens and once she hates someone they are in her bad books for life. Only earning a life debit from Nine would make her consider giving that person a second chance. Being said Nine is loyal to whoever is in charge officially and to those she considers a friend.

To Nine duty is fairly important as well as being honorable to a degree, following a slightly twisted version of her kinds code of honor. When it comes to authority Nine dislike being ordered around by males, tolerating because she has to. Given how old Nine is she is fairly smart having done much in her life she can insightful, about things at times. Insight she tends to share, if she feels it is needed or asked. Nine as tenancy to manipulate others, to get her way or simply for her amusement. Even if frowned up by her kind she gets a kick out of sparking fights or making people paranoid, just so long as she doesn't get sucked into it. Nine as no time for thieves or those that would kill simply for killings sake.

Likes

• People that are understanding careful with their words
• Dull/ poor lighting
• Cold environments
• Piloting ships
• Pickers to a degree, provided they are not simple brutes.

Dislikes

• Being touched
• Bright lights
• Hot environments
• PIRATES
• Music in any form

Skills

• Trained and highly skilled ship pilot
• Basic level of engineering skills
• Decent shot with a pistol
• Her race can naturally see light on the ultraviolet spectrum
• Talented observer

Weaknesses

• Psychically weak compared a lot of other races. This is true for all Ukai, they are just not naturally a psychically strong race, so require mechanical aid to do any real lifting.
• Requires a protective eye wear to see in bright or normal lighting, as exposure for more then a few minutes can cause blindness and causes intense pain.
• Requires special medications for illness or pain. Due to a semi-intelligence moss the lives within the bodies of each Ukai, that is highly sensitive to most common medications. This moss plays an important part to the Ukai acting as their immune system, so without it they would all succumb to illness quickly and die.

Fears

• Having her eye wear taken form her: This common method to torturer Ukai as the pain it inflicts on them is great and would leave her unable to continue being a ship pilot.
• Being near or given common medications: would kill her slowly form illness, plain and simple.
• Being stranded on an uncolonized world: she's had to survive on uncolonized world before and its something she really doesn't want to do again. Suggest it or joke about it and watch Nine bolt out the nearest door.

History

Nine, grew up in what would be considered a typical fashion for a Ukai growing up on her home-world in one of the underground cities. She spent her childhood learning, playing and form time to time getting into mischief. Going into her peoples military when she completed her basic education and became old enough, applying to become a pilot always having an interest in flying the large battleships her people built. It was there Nine received her training as a pilot and started out piloting fighter craft and cargo ships. Moving on to larger vessels as she became more experienced and in the end piloting one of her peoples battleships just like she had always wanted. Something her kind considered to be a noble posting.

She did this for a while but eventually grew board of it, so left and for a time drifted becoming a pilot for hire. She ended up leaving her peoples space, going wherever jobs took her. During this time Nine took and interest in the star fighter races her people held, so always returned to participate in the larger events, winning several. Sadly thought her people didn't award prizes to the winner, but she got a lot of respect for it and a reputation for being an ace pilot. Even though she was good at racing it didn't feed her, Nine having no interest in living with her people empire where basics for life where provided. So continued to work pilot for hire.

It was during one job, the ship she was on was attacked by pirates and crashed on some unnamed and uncolonized world. After several weeks of surviving on this world, Nine was luckily enough to be picked up by a team of pickers that where on planet looking for things to check in. After being brought up to the ship Nine spent several weeks abroad the ship, where she got to know a couple of the pickers. Once the ship returned to a space-station to resupply, Nine felt she owed pickers something for the rescue so applied to the galactic counsel to become a pilot of picker ships (or whatever they are called).

That was 120 years ago, Nine still feeling she has not paid of her debt, still pilots picker ships finding it rather interesting work even after so long even though she had repaid her moral debt. It was during this time she recently meet a captain she took a MAJOR disliking to. So much so Nine basically refused to comply with captains orders. Much to Nine annoyance this Captain saved her life when pirates attacked the ship thus owes the captain a life debt... one Nine really doesn't want to repay. But before Nine was made to repay her debt she applied to transfer to another ship which was accepted and left.
Recently she was assigned to a new ship as her old one was decommissioned, her new ship needing a new pilot after getting ill and passing away. Sadly for Nine this new vessels captain is one she owes the debt to and utterly hates with every fiber of her being.

When a chip was found that could lead to a lost race Nine wasn't sure what to think, but for the most part is willing to go along with it for the moment. Although she had questioned the captain serval times before deciding to stay. Only doing so as the captain called on the life debt which Nine couldn't object to. So stay's under sufferance watching the captain very closely.
Deep down she is unsure if it right to go after a lost race, thinking there has to be a good reason why they where lost to begin with.

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Ukai

Lifespan

The average life span is roughly 734 years

Home planet

Esosak 3.
A huge cold world covered in vast tundra forests and in places jungle, filled with massive trees, plants and animals. While not all life forms are massive, these larger life forms are domant on the planets surface. There are serval massive fortress like cities that dot the planets surface. These cites surrounded by massive walls, these cities filled with huge skyscrapers built in and out of the massive trees, that cover the planets surface. These cities acting a the planets spaceports and last line of pleasantry defense form orbital threats.

Deep underneath the planets surface, are a vast network of caves filled with many bioluminescent plants and animals. Many of these living in some form of symbioses with each other, this including the Ukai people. While no where near as big as the surface dwelling animals and plants the ones underground are far more vicious to non natives. Many of the larger caves the Ukai have built sprawling cities which house's the bulk of the planets population. All the cites look nearly exactly the same as if they where copies of each other, filled with elegantly curved buildings. Each of these cities are more like warrens with the entire populace living close to each other, all of the cites are built to accommodate the wildlife and plants and are built where they will have only a small impact on them as well.

Culture

Once a predatory race of small cat like creatures the Ukai, evolved deep underground of their home world. Away form the massive plants and animals that roamed the surface, like everything else living in symbiotic relationship the other creatures and plants. As the Ukai evolved and grew more intelligent they became aware of this relationship, always being mindful of it as they advanced technologically. The Ukai always trying to keep the impact they had on their world small as possible, to preserve what they needed to survive. Even to this day the same logic is applied to their world and the many others they have colonized. While building great cities they build around nature and try not change the landscape too much.

Being said the Ukai while peaceful and understanding to their planets, they treat other races with a small level of distrust and always watching them closely. The Ukai being a very militaristic people maintain huge fleets while mostly used to guard their territory, as well to act as peace keeping forces when the galactic council calls on them. Having a militaristic nature, the Ukai value honor, valor and duty. Service in the military is considered to be a very honorable thing to do, so much so that several decades of service is expected of everyone and those that don't are frowned on. Only those with high levels of intelligence are an exception to this provided they go into field that require a great intellect. Due to this all Ukain children receive some combat training as part of their basic eduction and all citizens carry sidearms or a knife when out of the home. To take a Ukain's weapon off them is considered to be an offense and might end up with the weapon in question being used.

The Ukai nation is known to the galaxy as the Untied Ukain Star Empire which is always ruled by an Empress, who is selected by a great many and often fatal rituals. Where only the strongest and smartest of Ukai girls would even have a chance of surviving. That is provided they are selected to undergo the rituals, the method as to how selection is made unknown to all but the Empress and a secretive group that answers only to her. In the empire females tend to hold positions of power form the Empress, to ship captains even to managers of shops. While males can achieve most of these positions as well it is a lot harder for them to do so.

Being a race the evolved deep underground living on the surface or in orbit of a world is considered taboo by some but is a slowly dying way of thinking. All Ukai are meant to live by a code of honor, which prevents them form fighting in unfair battles, lying, stealing and that they should repay debts. Those living in the empire closely follow the code as it is law and breaking it tend to end in exile or execution depending on nature of the violation. Those outside the empire do not always follow the code of honor, those that do tend not to follow it so closely.

In the terms of religion the Ukai worship their dead ancestors believing that they are watching and guiding them from the after life. When a Ukai dies the family eat the deceased member, it considered to be a great act of respect to them. They also apply this to aliens by eating them if they considered family or a loved one or allowing an alien to eat them. Refusing this is a great offense and often ends up with one refusing to participate being executed. This tradition being one of their oldest ones, is one of many old traditions still practiced

In the Star Empire all basics for life are provided and work while not demanded in return is considered right, not contributing to the empire in some way is frowned upon. Those that don't willing contribute are often forced into the military or driven out of Imperial space. Evil those Ukai living outside of the empire will frown upon those that do not pull their weight.

The Ukai have a very complicated why of communicating, using sight just as much as the spoken word. Although few races can see naturally, Ukai emit a soft glow of ultraviolet light. A glow that shifts when going about their day or talking to someone. Ukai picking up on this and words and gestures changing meaning depending how they are glowing. When they first encountered aliens this lead to a lot of miscommunication, so now many Ukai when dealing with aliens try to clear and precise as they speak. Ukai while can speak do so with a monotone, lacking the ability to shift their tone of voice. Due to this Ukai are not very good reading vocal tones or shifts. Thus the empire has no music what so ever.

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The Pickers

I will have my CS most likely tomorrow (well tomorrow for me.)

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

<Snipped quote by Narcotic Dollie>

We (that being @section, @Adelynn Ryder, @Silver Fox, @Verdaux and myself) are working on the mother of all collabs (at least until the bar, heheh) right now. Would be a little awkward if a timeskip occurred immediately

@Specter189

ALERT, ALERT a MOAC as been detected all hands batten down the hatches and prepare for impact. We are now at DEFCON 1.

Shine City 3: Summer Sequel (Always Accepting)

So this most likely got over looked due to me not making it stand out enough. But really would like some to respond to it. (No I'm not blaming anyone of you or trying to mean. Even if it looks like that.)

On side note I dived thought my music data base last night looking for my characters theme song, but before I go with it want some opinions as I'm a little unsure if it fits or not.

@Evil Snowman

This is bugging the living crap out of me as I can't make up my mind.